This Looks Shopped – Send up of Photoshop Critics
Photoshopping as an art or editing pictures goes back almost to the time photographs were invented. Professional touch ups on pictures have been happening for centuries now.
With the advent of the Internet and software becoming available to the masses, photoshopping as an art form has reached new heights. No longer does the picture tell the story. Nowadays the picture tell what the poster wants it to tell.
Along with photoshopping came the “fake” armchair experts. Those people who know enough to be dangerous and whenever a picture appears on the Interent that is even slightly suspected to be edited, these archair experts come out in droves..
Under each image will be reply posts with comments such as
“This image is photoshopped. I can tell by the pixelation.”
With anything on the net today that has a familiar tone to it, or a catchy theme, it will be sent up, turned into a meme and spread like wildfire through the cyberworld.
“This image is photoshopped” is no exception. As soon as the armchair critics would appear to discuss the finer points of why they thought an image was shopped, pictures like the ones below would be posted in reply, sending up both the critic and the original poster of the suspect “shopped” photo.
